Your phrasing makes me think you are not in the US so I can’t speak directly to how your university might do things. But CS is more about pen and paper and idea

Your phrasing makes me think you are not in the US so I can’t speak directly to how your university might do things. But CS is more about pen and paper and ideas than it is about writing code. Don’t presume that you are learning how to build software the way it is done in industry. That being said, the material is a solid foundation for learning how to think about logic and tradeoffs.